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Originally Posted by mores
Microsoft Windows is also a closed system. I bought a PC a while back along with windows and a shitload of programs. Then I switched to a mac and can't use those programs anymore. Must be Microsoft DRM or something. Bah.
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Microsoft is a proprietary system. It controls it's internal code. It does
not control what software that can be written under it. Why do you think there are so many viruses?
The Mac is a completely different proprietary system. Linux is a different open-source system. I don't expect a program written under any particular proprietary system to run under another proprietary system, or other open source system without modification, although snail-slow interpreted languages can be run under different OS'es.
Try running 10 year old Mac software on your Mac....